Norm Wolf and myself traveled over to southern Maryland yesterday and operated on Dale Latham's Piedmont Southern Railroad. Seeing pics of it in MR's Great Model Railroads, I knew I was in for a treat. It had changed some since that issue of GMR in 2009 but it was one of the nicest layouts I have visited. It is a proto-freelanced layout based in western Virginia in the early 1950's. My pictures don't do it justice. I thank Dale for letting me have the chance to operate on his sensational layout.
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| Bob Sprague gets ready to make a cut in the yard. |
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| Yard ladder track. |
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| The many industries of the Piedmont area. |
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| One of the yard switchers |
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| This is Piedmont, my switching job consisted of jobs in this switching puzzle. |
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| Another view Piedmont, my switching job consisted of jobs in this switching puzzle. |
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| Norm Wolf poises with his train by the only tiny unfinished area on the layout. |
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| A run through freight flies by the yard. |
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| Like the Midland Coal sign by the station |
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| Piedmont Station on the bluff. |
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| Smaller tipples always seem to me to really stand out. This one is no different. |
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| Dixie Grocery Distributors |
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| A RF&P boxcar is spotted. Dale is a RF&P historical member so you will see some RF&P cars scattered on the layout. |
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| In the distance is the largest coal mine on the layout, |
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| What a great home by the tracks! |
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| Details are a big part of the layout. Here are two structures on the PS. |
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| A log loading spur. |
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| A neat scene of a log truck crossing a river. |
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| The latest scheme on the Piedmont Southern is shown on this geep. |
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| Norm continuing on his long trek throughout the layout. To the left is part of a cement facility. |
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| Another part of the cement facility in the hills. |
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| Most of my switching and run-arounding was done in this area. |
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| A view of Buckingham Box and Crate |
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